tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post7004368981146490111..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: My How Much Shes' GrownDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-17114701449271820952011-11-18T18:28:32.046-05:002011-11-18T18:28:32.046-05:00Andrea I to will be interested to hear Dave's ...Andrea I to will be interested to hear Dave's opinion as there is something of a dichotomy going on with improved awareness of accessibility but there is also an increasing media/government negativity about people with disabilities in my opinion.<br /><br />MyrrienAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-59731669420781727382011-11-18T12:09:02.870-05:002011-11-18T12:09:02.870-05:00Dave, I think it is getting better. I have to bel...Dave, I think it is getting better. I have to believe that otherwise I would give in to depair. Sometimes, the wheels grind so slowly, they don't seem to be moving at all. It's only when you can look back, then you see that there has been movement.Princeton Possenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-63958862624669364582011-11-18T07:46:49.110-05:002011-11-18T07:46:49.110-05:00Dave,
I am glad to know that accessibility is slow...Dave,<br />I am glad to know that accessibility is slowly becoming a concrete reality in the UK.<br /><br />I wonder if you have noticed any changes in people's attitudes toward people with disabilities? When I read things written by disabled people in the UK, I seem to hear a lot of despair over drastic benefits cuts (or threats of same) that threaten their livelihoods, and I also hear from those who see an increase in harassment and abuse from members of the general public who seem to increasingly view disabled people as "benefits scroungers" who are simply frauding the system rather than legitimately in need of support. Some attribute this increase in hate crime to increasingly negative press coverage. As a foreign visitor, have you observed any of this for yourself, or heard of stories similar to these?<br /><br />As examples, I am thinking of the kind of things written at <a href="http://wheresthebenefit.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">wheresthebenefit.blogspot.com</a> and also <a href="http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com</a>, but I've seen similar frustration expressed in other places as well, including the BBC Ouch disability chat board before they shut that down.Andrea S.http://gdrl.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-81693860797103008032011-11-18T03:52:28.871-05:002011-11-18T03:52:28.871-05:00Don't want to make you nervous all over again!...Don't want to make you nervous all over again! But just on Tuesday I went to my local pub (in London) newly refurbished. I'm able-bodied but my foster son is a wheelchair user so I tend to notice accessibility. I went to the loo, as you do. Noticed it was very well done indeed in terms of accessibility - then noticed it was up a flight of 5 steps. Couldn't see a ramp. Asked at the bar, they said there wasn't one (I then emailed the pub and got an immediate apology and was told the barman was misinformed). But if the barman didn't know there was a ramp I couldn't find one when I looked, that's really really not good enough. I'm glad to say that the other local pub, also recently refurbished, has not only put an external access ramp, but also a lift beside it, 'because the turns on the ramp are too tight for a larger power chair'. Good for them!Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05460117480302002841noreply@blogger.com